Former Manchester United assistant manager Rene Meulensteen has had his say on their humiliation at Brighton.
A disastrous season at Old Trafford reached a fresh low on Saturday when they were thrashed 4-0 at Brighton and United could yet end up in the Europa Conference League.
Meulensteen told talkSPORT: "There were a lot of expectations, even from myself. When [Cristiano] Ronaldo comes in, he comes in for one reason only and that's to improve the team and basically get United challenging again.
"They were second in the league, so no reason to believe anything else.
"For some reason there was that lack of consistency at the start of the season and performances started to fall away.
"The season has been derailed more and more. You saw the frustration kick in when they got knocked out of this competition [the Carabao Cup], then they got knocked out of the FA Cup, then they lost ground in the league.
"They changed managers again [with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer sacked] and Rangnick came in.
"Rangnick's impact has not brought what everyone expected, to push for the top four and Champions League is so important.
"They have been derailed and irritation has turned into frustration.
"When I see United play, I see a team that is lost. They are lost completely. There is no cohesion, no organisation, no structure, any basic thing that you need in any successful performance is not there."
He added: "The most important thing is when you do sign for a club is to represent them with pride. We know some players that have come in have never really committed to the club.
"Then you get these rumours fed in through the media that "he's not happy" and this player or that player wants to go.
"If you've got a very solid dressing room and those players in the dressing room want to be there together, they want to do well together and fight for each other.
"But if you've got people in there who don't really want to be there then you feel that. You will sense it and it has an effect on the performances."
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